There’s a certain time of day, when the unkempt stadium across from my building is divided equally by light and shadow. Today, I came out at just such a time. After my usual warm-up, I found myself winded fairly quickly, the wind whipping me with my own hair (“cut your hair, Nat,” my track coachContinue reading “Fast girls”
Daily Archives: August 30, 2009
Synesthesia: I has it
Leave it to me to be inspired by a Cracked article about how certain mental conditions could potentially get a guy laid (hey Cracked, when are you going to start helping ladies to get laid? Just sayin). Nabokov had it. Tori Amos has it. Yours truly has it, though she’s not nearly as awesome asContinue reading “Synesthesia: I has it”
From work: Sarah Jaffe on New Orleans 4 years after the flood
In my biased opinion, this piece on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina was very, very good. It’s easy to forget New Orleans if you’re not actually in it, right? I’m not going to give you any platitudes about poverty and disaster, you can say them in your head already. Just, you know, let’s all pauseContinue reading “From work: Sarah Jaffe on New Orleans 4 years after the flood”
Natalia A. 